William Barleycorn’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Equatoguinean missionary
Was Missionary
From Equatorial Guinea
Gender male
Birth

1848, Malabo

Death

1925
(aged 77 years)

William Napoleon Barleycorn (1848–1925), born in Santa Isabel, Fernando Po, Spanish Guinea and a Krio Fernandino of Igbo descent, was a Primitive Methodist missionary who went to Fernando Po (now known as Bioko) in Africa in the early 1880s. From there, he traveled to Edinburgh University.

Early life

He was the son of Napoleon Barleycorn, also a Primitive Methodist missionary in Fernando Po, who sent his sons to be educated at Bourne College in Quinton, England. He, additionally, studied in Barcelona, Spain and Victoria, Cameroon.

Missionary work

During the early 1870s, William Barleycorn was a Sunday school teacher, a member of the Native Missionary Class, and a preacher at the local Bubi village of Basupu. In 1871 he abandoned running a small trading store and moved to San Carlos (North-West Bay) to work as an assistant for a European missionary. In 1873 he became the head of the Primitive Methodist Day School in San Carlos. Barleycorn made several trips to England, and received by the conference in Hull to serve as probationer in 1881.

Studying in Barcelona

In 1884 he became listed as one of the regular ministers, and studied in Barcelona for two years to obtain his Spanish teaching certificate. He became the visible leader of Santa Isabel’s Fernandino community by the 1890s, and served as a patriarchal remnant of the Anglophone and Protestant influence on the island.

In his honor, a 40-foot-high (12 m), $300 monument was erected in a Protestant cemetery near the Krio settlement Clarence Cove.

Bubi primer

Barleycorn compiled the first Bube primer in 1875 along with co-missionary William B. Luddington.

Two copies of Bubi na English primer compiled by William B. Luddington and William N. Barleycorn, 1875, are available for consultation in SOAS Library.

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